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...were older than 18 years old, then maybe. Maybe I would encourage him. But sending this boy--it is not acceptable." TAMAM ABDU, speaking about the men who enlisted her 16-year-old son Hussam to attempt a suicide bombing; authorities stopped him at a checkpoint in Israel, discovered his bomb and defused...
...surprisingly, the Taliban has a different story. A Taliban soldier, Abdu Rahman, 30, told TIME that two combat helicopters arrived before dawn Saturday in the desert 10 miles east of Kandahar. As one hovered overhead, a few commandos poured out of the second gunship. Hundreds of Taliban fighters, who had responded to the earsplitting whir of the choppers, were crouching in the darkness. "We were ordered to wait until the Americans came closer. But nobody listened. We were all firing," Rahman says. The American forces "flew off like sparrows...
...surprisingly, the Taliban has a different story. A Taliban soldier, Abdu Rahman, 30, told TIME that two combat helicopters arrived before dawn Saturday in the desert 10 miles east of Kandahar. As one hovered overhead, a few commandos poured out of the second gunship. Hundreds of Taliban fighters, who had responded to the earsplitting whir of the choppers, were crouching in the darkness. "We were ordered to wait until the Americans came closer. But nobody listened. We were all firing," Rahman says. The American forces "flew off like sparrows...
Julie Summers, a daughter of the uppity circles in South African society, does her best to separate her life from the materialistic world of her father. When Abdu, a “grease-monkey” (mechanic) from an unnamed third world country, appears in her life, she cannot resist the foreign uniqueness and social incorrectness that he represents. This strange man is her “pickup,” and she is excited that her father and his friends obviously disapprove...
Gordimer’s writing portrays an insincere love between the two main characters. Their connection is more sexual than anything else; their love is tainted by ulterior motives. Abdu likes that Julie comes from a higher class and that she has an influential father with a slew of connections who could help raise his status in the world. Julie likes the fact that her relationship with Abdu is a blatant defiance to convention...